Daniel Taylor was born on 16 June 1710, in Billinge, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom as the son of Thomas Taylor. He married Elizabeth Gibson on 12 October 1737, in Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1775, at the age of 65, and was buried in Billinge, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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